RAV4 world second best seller

[Flatcoat]

Tesla have stolen the top slot for worlds best selling car last year. The RAV is second with the Corolla following. I feel sorry for all those buying into dead end technology with their EV’s. Interesting comment from Toyota earlier in the week predicting on a worldwide basis the maximum demand for EV’s will be 30% of the market. Personally I suspect that is optimistic with current technology across all aspects of car electrification. 

[ToyotaFanDriver]

The low tax thing BIK for electric cars is what has driven their sales, at least here in the UK. Then theres a glut of them on the 2nd hand market. The government push to have x% sales of manufacturer cars as EV will cause alot of pain for car makers (fines!) and force customers come 2035 to have to drive rubbish that isnt suited to many peoples needs (no drives etc).

I'm not an old man or dinosaur but I really cannot see EV cars being the solution....(at least not without some non existent magic tech that charges up as fast as refueling and has super reliable non-degrading batteries)

[Cyker]

Yeah they've gone about this all wrong - They should be selling on their merits, not forcing people to get them with legislation.

It's just created needless animosity toward EVs which is going to set back adoption by who knows how much.

I'm just waiting for Toyota to get serious about EVs - Then you'll know the tech has caught up and they're worth considering.

We're all waiting on Battery tech breakthroughs and for sane people to be put in charge of charger deployment and maintenance, rather than the clown show currently doing it!

[Rav Rob]

I can see if the 2035 new ICE ban happened, in the following years we would develop a Cuba style sub economy for cars. Remember how they became masters at keeping going old cars from the 50's by mechanical refurbishment? because there were embargoes stopping them importing anything newer.
This net zero policy is the same as an embargo. Industrial units will gradually spring up all over with specialists, the methods of keeping old cars going is well established, refurbished engines, new bearings, cylinder liners, new pistons. The rest of the car is mostly wear and tear items, bearings, brakes, gaiters, bushes all fixable, fortunately rust is less of a problem than it used to be.
In some way this will be more Green as instead of replacing with new using a lot energy and materials to make, old vehicles will be given extended lives and repaired.

 

[ernieb]

One of the problems of keeping a modern day car as compared to a 50's model is the reliance on sophistifacted electronics without which many cars would not work.